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Results from Poor Man's College:

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.: William James (1842 - 1910)
A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.: William James (1842 - 1910)
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of inertia.: William James (1842 - 1910)
The family is the nucleus of civilization.: William James Durant
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may retain entirely unaffected for the better. With mere good intentions, hell is proverbially paved.: William James (1842 - 1910)
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.: William James (1842 - 1910)

Results from Contributed Quotations:

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.: William James (1842 - 1910)
The difference between a good man and a bad man is the choice of cause.: William James (1842 - 1910)
The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.: William James (1842 - 1910)
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.: William James (1842 - 1910)

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